Hello,
in this post, I’m referencing to the system requirements that were published before release and that weren’t updated since then.
I have a pretty powerful PC, the hardware hits all requirements in the “ideal” area (i7-9700k, RTX 2070 Super, 32Gb DDR4 RAM, 1TB m.2 SSD). The only requirement I’m not in the sweet spot is the internet speed. I have a 50 Mbit/s connection, which would be the ideal requirement, but due to the environment of my room, I can only access it via WIFI, causing that my effective speed is a bit slower. It still is between 35 and 45 Mbit/s constantly, which would be right between the recommended and the ideal area.
Having the requirements satisfied like that, I would expect to only have a slightly weaker result when it comes to how good cities look that have data streamed from the cloud. But honestely, those cities look really ugly with my setup. As I said, I’m not expecting to have the best optical result since I’m not perfectly hitting the ideal requirements, but in my opinion, it shouldn’t look that much worse while I’m at least pretty close to the ideal requirements. In comparison, a friend of mine with a better internet speed, but much weaker PC, flew over the same cities as I did and they looked incomparably much better.
I haven’t really found people with similiar complaints, so I’m asking here: Are there any known issues that cause the streaming quality to be lower than possible? I would appreciate any advice!
With friendly greetings.
Are you sharing the internet connection with anyone or anything else? Any streaming audio, video, phones etc? The 50 Mbit is for your account and not per machine.
Do you have the option to pull an ethernet connection to your PC?
One last thing is you could try an internet speed test to see what your connection is actually doing.
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Hello, thanks for your answer!
Yes, I am sharing my internect connection with other people in my household. Though the problem is independent from that. Even at times I was home alone and my speed test was showing 45 Mbit/s, the result was just as bad as when someone else was using the connection (I’m at work right now, I could share some screenshots later of how bad it looks).
Unfortunately, I don’t have the option to pull an ethernet connection to my PC, it would take a lot of effort to do that because of the distance to the router and I will live in this house for not longer than a year from now.
If you can move your machine to the router temporarily, try a wired connection to see what the best you can get.
Also, is the internet connection provided yours or someone else’s? What options are available from the carrier?
What OS you running? Teredo settings posted on this forum increased my downstream from 800Kbps to above 5Mbps, depending on where I fly this has reached over 90Mbps.
If wi fi does turn out to be an Issue you can buy a couple of powerline adapters and effectively use your house mains electricity wiring as a cable connection.
I have been using them for over 10 years, much better throughput and latency than Wi fi.
I’m running Windows 10 (I think pro? Have to check later). I haven’t heard of Teredo yet, I suppose you are implying to PATNoes’ post?
Definitely will test that later, the screenshot from how his game looked before he activated it looks exactly how my game looks like right now. That’s a very promising approach, thanks for sharing!
Update: After many attempts, I made Teredo run succesfully. I am now also using a powerline adapter, which actually makes me have a constant download rate of 50 Mbit/s (which is the maximum I can get in this household), as long as nothing else is pulling data on my system. And still, cities with streamed data look absolutely horrific. I was running the task manager on my previous attempt, to check how much data is being consumed by the Flight Sim. Even when I’m soaring right above the cities, the textures right below me aren’t properly loaded and the amount of data that is consumed by FS is at only 10 Mbit/s most of the time. It could potentially go up to 5 times of that to load those missing textures, but it’s not making use of it during the flights. Though it was making use of the entire 50 Mbit/s while it was loading an update. And before you ask: No, I am not limiting the amount of data it’s allowed to use, I have checked the data option menu several times and played around with it a lot, with no real effect.
At this point, I absolutely refuse to belive that the problem is my internet connection and that there is a bug that is causing the FS to use less data than it could.
I have the same problem, did you ever find a solution for this?
I’ve finally got the option of getting FTTP internet in my house with the choice of 150,300 or 900mbps. I currently get about 70mbps using standard FTTC. Not that i’ve particularly got issues at the moment, but will I get an improvement (especially in photogrammetry) with faster internet access, or would it be a waste of money? I’ve pretty much got all the bandwidth to myself currently, so contention in the house isn’t an issue either.
What’s the most bandwidth anyone has seen being pulled down when running MSFS?
Many thanks.
Starting MSFS2020 brings down my internet speed from 100 to 10 Mbit/sec wired and wifi the same result
What to do?